#and this is only book 1 mind you

[botlabyrinth]

sally’s “i want him to know who he is, before your family tries to tell him who they want him to be.” and poseidon saying “he will be stronger for it on the other side. his mother raised him well.” and he is. percy is stronger on the other side. we’ve seen it so clearly through his quest. his confusion at how you have to earn the gods’ love, earn their respect. his conversation with annabeth on the train about it. his unwillingness to accept the ways of the gods. him realizing his mother wanted to keep him away from this world, and annabeth being the one to tell him that maybe it was for the better that sally did that. so that he wouldn’t be like them. annabeth’s “he isn’t that way. he’s better than that. maybe i was that way once. but i don’t want to be that way anymore.” the way percy would’ve turned out with a similar worldview to annabeth’s if he had been sent to camp so early on. and annabeth’s worldview changing so quickly after meeting percy. sally jackson raised that kid right. you would think that as a demigod, the half god side of percy is what’s important. but that’s not what makes him the hero. it’s the half mortal side of him that does. his humanity, his mortality, his mother. that is why percy is the hero that he is.

#and this is only book 1 mind you #i feel sick #they got this all SO RIGHT in the show #it’s so beautiful to see it play out like WOW #the flashbacks in ep7 were so so good #pjo tv #pjo tv spoilers #pjotv #percy jackson #pio #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo spoilers #pjo tv show #sally jackson #poseidon #annabeth chase #percy jackon and the olympians #ruch rambles #1k

[comradecowplant]

so things are not going well with my new elderly socdem friend unfortunately.

#she said this RIGHT after talking about how bad yt misinfo is... which she followed up w SO I WAS WATCHING A YT DOC ABOUT WW2 & LEARNED THIS #youtube 'historians' are literally the most fascist breed of youtuber. avoid the vast majority like the plague lmao #i asked if the video was sourcing the hollow dahmer & the black book of communism & she didnt seem to know what those are lol #to her credit i told her straight up that she was incorrect & she at least faked being curious about doing more research but i am doubting #she also 'learned' that lenin killed trotsky lol get your propaganda right lenin was dead by then STALIN icepicked him <3 #anyway im making jokes bc the worst part was a different conversation where she spoke positively of israel #THAT'S gonna be the one to ruin our friendship. fuck you & your war tourist friend who fought in the 1960s landgrabs that youre now #telling me as if this is a cute story. nahhhh lmao i looked her straight in the eye & said i will NOT debate this #so she dropped it like the true enlightened centrist most socdem cowards are and i kept cleaning her house quietly #turns out You & Me We're the Only Ones Around Here Who Aren't Complete Fools was premature *kicks the poorly rendered gravel sadly* #shes otherwise a nice lady & i know i need to be more flexible in order to hopefully change ppls minds... #but also when people say awful & untrue things it makes me not want to talk to you 🤷‍♂️ srry 2 b a freak like that #also i know shes not transphobic but i havent sniffed her out well enough to know if shes safe to come out to #so its hours of misgendering (which isnt her fault she doesnt know) bc shes obsessed with neoliberal feminism and inappropriately brings #gender into conversations that it does not belong in #'did you know all the countries that handled covid best were ran by women?' 1) untrue 2) dont care finland still sucks #she also tried to tell me that european rich people learned to be nicer after the french rev & thats why europe is better than america... #girl shut up we learned how to be so good at racism and capitalism BECAUSE of europe. there is no such thing as a good rich person!!! #i pick my battles (genocide & anticommunist genocide revisionism) so i let her cook w that one & was not left convinced as you can imagine #ANYWAY rant about today's weird day done. gonna smoke weed & rim some skies 🥵 while listening to the Khrushchev Lied audiobook i found 😘

[coquelicoq]

things i learned today:

my stepdad doesn't like the word obituary. why? well i can't be 100% certain because i asked no follow-up questions, but based on the way he relayed this information ("i don't like to use the word [lowers voice] oBITCHuary") i have a pretty good idea.

"we have to google meet" (as in, call each other on the Google Meet app) and "we have to google 'meat'" sound identical and i will interpret it as the latter regardless of how little sense that makes in context.

some drinking glasses have a little divot at the top of the handle into which my thumb fits perfectly!!!!!!!!

apparently when you find yourself at a branch of the library that's closing in three days for renovations, you should go ahead and check out all 11 books you have an eye on, because the computer will give you a due date SEVEN MONTHS INTO THE FUTURE. even though you could return the books at any other branch! jackpot.

#besties i am soooo sleep-deprived and i tell you when she said 'we have to google meet' to me... #i was like oh yeah makes sense. because you have anemia. and she was like what. and i was like wait googling 'meat' wouldn't help #with anemia...like you already know you should eat meat...you already know what foods meat is in...okay so why are we googling 'meat'? #fully trusting her to have a totally rational reason for announcing to me that we should google 'meat' while dropping me off @ the bus stop #fully prepared to support her in this random endeavor of mysterious utility #but she showed me her phone with the google meet icon and was like 'no i'm calling my girlfriend when you get out of the car' #and then we laughed hysterically for like three straight minutes. one of those days besties <3 #fun with words #libraries #my posts #no but the library thing is so funny. these weren't even holds i just started running low on library books so i took myself to a branch #only to see all these signs like 'closing in three days!' which i had no idea was happening because it's not my usual branch #so i was like okay whatever. good thing i didn't try to come three days from now i guess! #then i checked out and it was like due date: october 1 2023. they're like please temporarily store these books for us while we renovate 🥺 #we don't have room for them 🥺because of construction 😫 will you pretty please give them a good home for all of the spring and summer 🙏 #like a of all don't mind if i do and secondly that's so fucking funny what the fuck. you guys know about other branches right #like you're aware i can put these books in any book return in the county? yeah? alright haha take it easy

[waterandsilver]

had to redownload inst*gram to find a tattoo artist (success! :D) but im older and smarter now than when i had a terrible social media addiction and ive curated my explore page so that it literally only shows me tattoos, cats, recipe videos and horrifying aita stories. yeahhh babey

#also so im getting a cover-up because i got a tattoo last year when i was Balls To The Walls Crazy #and since i got it i've only ever had 1 compliment #but since i booked the cover-up feels like half the people in my life have told me it's a shame and it's so nice #my DAD tried to convince me not to cover it up #fake!!! ur all fake!! #i don't even hate the design i just unfortunately associate it with being fucking out of my mind insane #'why don't you cover up the fish instead' because i love my fish and also you have no say over my body. next question

[fungi-maestro]

Real Question heads may remember those green arrow crossover comics where Vic was exposed to a toxin that would wipe his brain or whatever (and he ended up having amnesia and that whole thing where he says some things that make you wonder if he is aware of the symptoms of depression or PTSD... But that's a topic for another time). Anyone else wonder if that's what changed his response to the mask gas to be more psychedelic...?

Tot mentions in this issue (not for the first time) that the adhesive can be effected by the chemistry of Vic's face changing (don't smoke, don't drink, don't inhale toxic fumes and it won't fall off/stay stuck). It would be interesting to know just how much that gas effected him. We know it changed his chemistry enough where the mask release wouldn't work. Maybe that's why he suddenly started smelling colors and seeing into other dimensions when exposed to the vapors.

#seal.txt #book club #the question #vic sage #late night rambling please forgive me #add on if you would like. i may add on more of my thoughts later #it just so happens to coincidentally match up with some of his last appearances before his 2005 Vietch run. vitch. veitch. idr its 1 here #probably not what the authors had in mind i woukd imagine #this goes out to everyone that wants to know my head canons #i do have some i just can only say them at 1 am on a night when i have an early morning

[thedeadthree]

AYRENN (the exile) // FAYE (resident evil)

LHYSA (the witcher/dragon age) // PAIGE (kotsam)

VANJA (aot) // VERLAINE (the golden rose)

the dearest @leviiackrman and @preachercuster tagged me to make the loves in this cutest picrew! ty so much!

tagging: @risingsh0t, @griffin-wood, @confidentandgood, @blackreaches, @adelaidedrubman, @preachercuster, @marivenah, @pheedraws, @arklay, @rosebarsoap, @jackiesarch, @chuckhansen, @lustyargonianmaid, @celticwoman, @saintsilver, @loriane-elmuerto, @shellibisshe, @queennymeria, @blissfulalchemist, @aceghosts, @florbelles, @belorage, @amistrio, @redroci, @hoesephseed, and @nokstella and you!

#only if you want to of course! 🌿💚 #and if i missed you please take this as ur tag! also if you’ve done this already please feel free to ignore 🖤🖤 #oc: ayrenn urthemiel #oc: faye marlowe #oc: lhysa #oc: paige furlan #oc: vanja tybur #oc: verlaine vicente #(okay also miiiight think of putting paigey in s*tranger th*ings? maybe? ghost hunting? but monsters! her thing! maybe?) #(she could be a horror writer? or horror scriptwriter? still a big fan of s*tevie n*icks ✨😌) #fayes hair is a dark brown instead of brown but hehehhe if u know u know on who’s jacket that is *cough* leon ✨🥴 #ayrenn and her broken arm ✨🥴 i once again believe everyone in plaithus NEEDS to thank sabir ✨😌 #bc he’s the ONLY reason she’s deciding against making her wish that she’ll see plaithus in ashes! bc OO boy after that went down? #at the parade? OOHHH she was thinking. but she chose to have back what she lost! for the sole reason of a particular silven viper hehe #paigey and her little red streaks in her hair ✨🥺 BB book 1 and 2 the strands are blonde and in book 3 she dyed them red! #is of the sound mind that yes the way to solve and inconvenience or stress is to dye your hair ✨😌🥀 #vanjas hair has a faint red undertone but the way she looks adorable in this! that they all do? ty so much macy + jess 🖤🖤 #leg.ocs #leg.tagged #t: picrews

[simply-sithel]

On my sister’s request, I bound her a copy of The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori. I used the 1/3rd page layout on a PDF available from the Internet Archive [link]. The fabric, I feel, compliments the subject matter perfectly-- but more importantly, it’s fabric that I used recently in her daughter’s baby quilt. Gotta’ match those baby accessories! ✨

#only got about 1/3rd of the way through before I sent it off to her #very interesting read... #it's from 1949 so... you know... there's some ideas in there #and I think we know more about a lot of things since then #was happy to be able to reference it in conversation with a school teacher shortly after I started reading it #learning #bookbinding #little book #the absorbent mind #maria montessori

[reginrokkr]

Is it a good moment to make the joke of Dain pulling the blue eyes white dragon card on people with the whole TCG Invokation / YGO thingy yet—

#◟༺✦༻◞ What lays behind the mantle of faux stars ┊OOC.┊ #it just came to mind #because I kept seeing #that joke around with Dain memes #about that #also because Seto's seiyuu is the same as Dain's #so I guess it all comes #in a full circle djfhjg #but I also have to say #Cyno forsake that book right now #otherwise you won't have all the food #or water :| #if only I wasn't lazy to do the event requirements #I'd be able to do it #but I refuse #when the dude can't leave the book be #to have (1) space for food #get the bugs then djfhg

[perfectlynormalvelocipede]

just finished rereading the silmarillion. out of spite.

#the silmarillion #I've only seen 1 trailer and 1 ad for the show and they just turnes me off... maybe someday #but today is not that day #the lord of the rings #lotr #idk man i don't want to shit all over something i haven't even given a chance yet #and i don't want to glorify something just for having existed for longer and because I'm familiar with it and don't want to open up my mind #but i already kind of hate the visuals and everything I've seen and how it's being promoted and ahhh #but i also hate how i now sort of judge all those who are excited about it like an old grumpy 'everything used to be better' fuckwit #but yeah.. I'm not watching it... for now #i also truly believe that i would not have finished the book so fast this time without the power of antagonism so thanks for that #I'll go and be sad now #i always forget how mindnumbingly sad it is once you get past dry af writingstyle

[the-furies]

SLEEPOVER SATURDAY!! COMPLAIN AND/OR RANT ABT SOMETHING!!!

I let this sit for a few hours because when you sent it we were About to go to sleep but then we dozed off and our body decided that Like 20 Minutes Of Sleep Is Enough To Keep Us Awake All Night! And so we read for like 2 more hours or so and ANYWAY.

The point is I& have been Thinking on what to rant about. Should I use this opportunity to rant about how ODD plurality is for me personally, how strange it is now in this life not only to be apart of something Bigger and More Than One but all simultaneously in One Body but also myself, personally, in-sys, being Multiple too, and how jarring that is now?

Perhaps I can rant about things that have happened in, oh I don't know, the past like 200 or so years ago and how Fucking BIZARRE this life is compared to my Past?

Maybe, rant about, the fuckign. Everything of it all. And just. I can't even finish this sentence!!!!

But no. Sit the fuck down.

I am going to rant to you about Peggle.

Let me FUCKING tell you something. I live and breathe Peggle nowadays. It is Thee Biggest Hyperfixation-Obsession-Special-Interest I've Ever Had In Any Of My Time Existing Ever . Nothing has ever brought me so much joy before (AHEM except for My Wonderful Significant Others Who Have Followed Me To This Life But BESIDES THEM,). I don't fuckgin Knwo what it is about this stupid series but it has Been Living In My Brain Rent Free The SECOND I Laid Eyes On It. And holy fucking shit. Holy fucking shit. I have. I have Opinions. On things in this series, ok.

First off. Ok. Renfield. This stupid dorky-ass pumpkin MotherFUCKER. I am beating Renfield Haters Up With A Sword!!!!!!! Fuck oFF off this page if you hate Renfield all my homies LOVE Renfield OK!!!!!!! LISTNE !!! He is a GREAT character!!!! I do not understand why people (or, the people we've watched play Peggle and I will admit is not that many!) hate his power!!! LITERALLY it is so good his levels just aren't BUILT for it properly!!!!!

I understand that his Thing, at least in Peggle Nights, is that he's an Artist™ or a Fan Of Thee Fine Arts™ and all, but while it's cool it just... Doesn't work!! All his levels (again, in Peggle Nights, which btw Is Thee Best Peggle Game Ever Prove Me Wrong!) are centered around famous paintings. The Scream, The Persistence of Memory, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, a couple others I care not to try to remember and Google right now—it's COOL but they don't WORK as LEVELS IN PEGGLE!! Fuckin, at least not for him!! Maybe for someone like Jimmy Lightning? Who's power is shooting two balls at once? Maybe for Claude, who's powers are flippers (which is funny because he's a lobster and the flippers are in the shape of his claws HaHa)? Maybe scrap the idea all together or use different paintings to make his levels out of??? I don't know!!! All I know is that his levels suck ASS in Peggle Nights and it's primarily because the way the pegs are laid out are SO far and few in between—once the ball drops, and goes back to the top of the screen As Is Renfield's Power, it just. Drops immediately back down the hole it first created!

And this would be avoidable I personally think if the fuckin PEGS WERE CLUSTERED MORE and also if the LEVELS WERE BUILT TO WORK WITH HIS POWER AND NOT GO WITH AN AESTHETIC and oh my god the levels he has in others games from what I've seen work with his power way better but God shit fuCK AND DAMN WHY DID THEY DO THIS, TO ONE OF THE COOLEST CHARACTERS IN ONE OF THE BEST PEGGLE GAMES, HOMOPHOBIA I SAY! SPECIFICALLY TOWARDS ME.

But anyways!

Second of all, Tula best character, also Warren suffers from the same thing Renfield does on top of HIS power just generally not being very Good And Useful, also fuck the Peggle app, that is not true Peggle, where are my beloveds, what did they do to my beloved Video Gaem, Who are these new characters, where is Claude?, Tula??, Hell they don't even have Renfield OR Warren what is this shit?????!!

IN CONCLUSION:

Buy Peggle Now, It Is Worth Your Time And Money, This Is A Threat (/joke)

#ask #thank you I have been sitting on this rant for quite a while with nary an excuse to post it -Izzet #Sorry for the Long Ramblings And Odd Word Useage And All the first and thusfar only book I've read while in this life is House of Leaves. #As you can see it is already fucking with my brain (honorary‚ also /joke) #the rants about plurality and The Inner Workings Of My Mind Being An Enigma shall come at a later date when I #And that's the end of that thought‚ folks! #long post #Fun fact Peggle has genuinely‚ honest to god‚ changed me for the better #had it not been for Acquiring A Hyperfixation/Special Interest I would still be Very Close To My Canon Self and therefore a huge prick #to everyone here but Nopem #*Nope. I'm normal and nice now <3! #I think if renfield's power should be tweaked then it should be so that once the ball drops to the bottom you can reshoot it without— #—using up one of your balls but that doesn't feel... Unique enough or somethin? #I don't Know it is 1 :40 AM brain is fried right now. goodnight will put more thought into this tidbit later!

[akiragatr]

#my posts #my polls

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?

Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.

All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)

But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.

But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.

I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?

It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.

Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.

Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)

#this is the grandmother who passed away unexpectedly earlier this month #she was so cool yall #and so weird #they got married twice by the way once when Massachusetts legalized it and once when New Mexico did #they hiked the grand canyon together #they had a european river cruise planned for this fall #she was 89 and she wanted to see the whole world with her wife #and they were working on it #literally i thought they were roommates #and there was only one bed

[blizzardfluffykpop]

I've been working on the same fic for what feels like months because I've wanted already to be out. I craved it being done since the 16th of February when the idea was presented to be by a dear friend. (We rotted so bad because of him...) ANYWAYS 😭😭😭 I'm about to cry happy tears- I finally finished it- I feel exalted tbh- (I forgot to mention it's scheduled for tomorrow at 1030 est~)

If you would like a spoiler for who it is about & what kind of an au it is- and the outfit that ran me insane- See below~

It's a mechanic au with Mr. Kim Younghoon (now originally, he was going to be in dark blue coveralls... (as I had picture him) but then I saw this photo & the performance and I've not been the same). This is Kpopnation: Warsaw, Poland: 230923 (was I only going to use 1? yeah but he: yeah)

#i'm just gonna ramble in the tags no need to read em! (my brain is mush by now) #fic update #fanfic update #kate rambles #this fic has been haunting me it's all i think about yet i've been avoiding it because it just wasn't coming together- it took me about #5 books (altho I did recieve 8)- and 1 diagram- and 2 videos- before i figured it all out- my knowledge only went so far #and it made me so mad- altho i had done similar work on cars- i've never had experiance with the engine in the fic... which led to #my brain melting- when i saw how many belts it originally came with- i was only used to one.... 😭 ff: my 302 engine only has 2 belts #while the boss 302 has 3 originally- (it can be rerouted as you'll see...) anyways- enough of my rambling ebhhbabha #i have lost my mind because of these men and i miss how my ult group gave me crumbs cause these boys don't rest and give me time to #breathe let alone think those mfs... I love them... #and kebbi thank you for implanting this idea in my brain- it's nearly 5k :) #(two fics about the same length... about the same man... yes i can assure you i'm totally normal about him :) ) #if you wish to know what actually made me finish it: mayhaps another man may have inspired an idea and I needed this out faster :) #will it just be me reading it because it was an entirely self-indulgent fic? maybe- but mayhaps someone else is into the idea

[hauntedtotem]

yall guess what I found at the con

#XENOGEARS BABYYY #that is VERY impressive considering it wasn't a real con and it was a popup event in the middle of nowhere. #A Glorified yardsale; if you will. With nothing but Star wars and comic books and Pokemon . But I found xeno series stuff hell yeah #They also had xenosaga ep 2 Japan edition but I didn't have the money for both #Didn't have money for mine and my sisters lunch either so we owe someone like 40 bucks now :( #But it's worth it...for xenogears #Only xeno game I don't own now is Xenoblade X which I'm praying gets a switch port. #praying every xeno game gets a switch port actually id love for everything to just be on one console #but X especially because I don't have and probably never will have a Wii u. At least I have a ps2 #might get the Wii edition of Xenoblade 1 sometime just bc it looks funky and I wanna experience that #Ik this is Japan edition and I can't play it without trying to mod my PS2 and risk bricking it but....Hush. #Still on the lookout for an affordable English edition #But at least my brainrot shelf will look a little more complete now #Also Ganon and guardian now ♥️ #was supposed to get shulk amiibo and like 4 other Loz ones gifted to me but ig she changed her mind and I didn't #Press bc I didn't wanna seem entitled. A gift is a gift and at least I got ganon #rip shulk tho. I saw they got officially restocked the other day and immediately sold out so I missed it *yet again*